The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-07-07
CURRENT TOPICS.
wuo ever saw a suffering woman,

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King Kslaknua's right hand man.
6oyrRSoR ToRREs, OF Sonora, offers Si0C
each for heads Of Apache Indians.
81 Louis has now twenty-four condemn
ed aud accused murderers In her jail
QUEEN kkrioLASf says she will have a
Jubilee Of her own when she reaches home,
FyE thousand hogsheads Of tobacco
were burned in u Louisville frc tho other
day
MissounI heads the list In tho condition
OF The wheat crop, showing full 100 per
cont.
IT ls estimated that there are sixty
thousand oolosed Knights Of Labor In the
South
Apludhrra OF senator Enstis, Of I.ouisi.
ana, Is the bost horseback rider in Wash.
in.ton
Tnr Rochester Adseriier offers Henry
George farm, II ho will move on II and
60 70 work.
or 50gIa "supcrfnoua women" in Mas.
sachusopis more than oighty.nyo per cent.
are widows.
A nKcENT writcr on China puts the pop.
ulation Of the Empire at four hundred and
nifty million.
CmIJlKs old house at Chelsea, visited
by many tourists, is In scandalous state
Of dilapldaton.
AyieAn ia England has greatly dis,in-
guiahcd himself by refusing 70 baptlse n
child 'Jubllea.n
RSoLisu children arc 70 be pitied this
year. Some Of the new ones are being
named Jnbilotta
FiyE hundred moro acres have been
planted TO watermclons In the South this
year than in 1885
THE New York Legislature passed bill
requiring liic-saying rope 10 be placed
in every hotel room
AZ old rusty Barlow knife has boon
found in aquarry near Grconup Ky, i'm
bcdded In solid rock.
Mn wrsriSanousr, Of air.brakc fame,
has taken out about twelve hundred pat,
cuts Of various kinds
Nm PanSEiI docs not improve In health.
audi Ia now said thai he "a suffering frou
cancer Of tho stomach.
PLrNourH Church Brooklyn. will be
shut for the summer. No such thlag ever
happened 70 u before.
AsTnoSoar has now term In its nomcn-
ciaturc. A New York sunday IA now
known as dcdoorcal day.
TIM New York Tribe5> says '.the selling
OF the toy pistol 10 children ought 10 be
made ~, indictablc ofionsem
GovrHSoR HiiL has signed u bill making
II unlawful for railroads in New York
State 70 use stoves in passenger cara after
May. lSSs
PRof. y. N CHouou, composer Of "Kath-
leon Mavourneen,r who is eighty seven
years old, Ia the author Of twenty. seven
children.
jar GouIp recently purchased thirty
thrco acres Of valuable land at MI Vernon
and made the regents Of that Institution N
present OF H.
JACK SHAW, Of shamokin, Pa. vowed not
10 wear coat while Democratic Admin.
istration was at the helm and so far he has
kept the vow.
Tn. Cornell University trustees have
sold the pine timber on twenty-five thou
sand acres OF land In Wisconsin. rccclving
therefor half million dollars.
PniLADELrun Is annoyed because tho
honest face OF Ben Franklin is put on The
new onc-ccnt postage stamps They think
Ben amounts 20 more than cent.
TuE wife Of John Murray, Beaver Falls
pa blacksmith, whose luck was hard,
learned 70 help him q; the forge, aud
is now as good a blacksmith Us he Is.
rur ghost Of Mrs. Roxalana Drnso. tho
woman who was hung recently iu New
York State, for killing her husband is
said 10 return to earth In the carly morn
ing
THEnE IS Yankee in an Illinois town
who plants sunil.wer seed In every hill
cf beans. The stalk serves for a bean
p ilc, while the seeds utilized for chicken
feed.
SIx carts and twenty men have for six
weeks been engaged in cutting aud haul
ing branches from Washington shade trees
that are white with tho cocoons OF tho
tent caterpillar.
NEw YoHk judge has decided that
tenants lease covers the outside walls Of
the building as well as the inside, and that
he has right 10 use tho former for ad-
ycrtsing purposes.
The women OF tho British Empire have
just shown that they are not lacking in
charitable impulses. Three million OF
them have contributed to fund OF $50, 900
for Queen Victoria. 1t Is a Jubilee pros
ent
AFTER spending long season in Europe
Fred Douglass says he is "coming home
with the knowledge that tho average man
in the United States Is bcttor fcd, clothed
and sheltered than in any other part OF
the world.n
CoysEoTIcuT's strict Sunday laws have
been stopping all railroad trains, but the
State railroad commissioners have issued
ap order allowing passenger trains TO run
ootween the hours Of Ia m. and p. IN.
on Sunday.
JAMES REDHEAD and Harry Anderson
went swimming in Lake Contrary,near st.
Joseph, Mo-, the other day and drowned
because party OF ladies and gentlemen In
a boat near by were too modest TO rescue
thcm without their clothes on.
DR. JosEPH r. CEIsLER, Official chemist
TO the New York Mercantile, Exchange
and 10 the New York Dairy Commission,
has discovered that poisonous compound
OF lead Is being used for the enameling Of
the leather sweat bands In hats.
DAUGHTER with three legs was born to
Frank Sprague and wife, OF Mecosta Coun-
~ Mich, some months ago, and as II was
no. thought that she would care for so
many, the poorest OF the legs was cut of.
The little one stood the operation bravely
and is now in excellent health.
TRUST the wide-eyed American TO take
caro- Of himself wherever his lot may be
cast. He CHANGED TO DO taking an airing
IN London when the Queens jubilee came
along, and knocked 5000 clear money out
OF 1t In day by subletting building
winch he had rented on the line Of the pro-